North Carolina Newspapers

WM. H. BERNARD, Editor and Proprietor. WILMINGTON, NI C. : ' Friday, April 19th,j 1878,- 1ST" Remittances mast be made by Check, Draft, Postal Money Order, or Registered Leer. Post Masters will register letters when desired, -3? Only such remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. ' Specimen copies forwarded when desired. RECEIVER FOR W1L9HNOTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA KAIL- - I Raleich News. 1 At chambers in Baltimore, on Friday. Judge Bond appointed Hon. R. Bridgers Iteceiver or the Wilmington,. Columbia and Augusta itauroad. .The application was by mortgago bond- iioiders representing tbree million nine hun dred thousand dollars. Hon. , William A. , Wright, Esq.. the oldest railroad man in ihe State, forty-four consecutive years a - Director in the Wilmington & Weldon, ap peared as counsel for the' Uompany. The Receiver was required to give bond in the sum of two hundred thousand dollars. This result was not unexpected in Rail road circles. : 1 he conditions nave been ripening for it for some months.- In Janu ary, last, the Wilmington-Columbia de faulted the interest on its mortgage bonds. The bond-holders lately saw proper to call a conference in Baltimore, to consider of a Receiver, and the conference lasted nearly a week, with the result that, yesterday the itoaa passed into the hands orpine Keceiver appointed the day before. . . This Railroad was lessee of the Wilming ton & Weldon Railroad,' paying seven per . t - . x mi. - . money was defaulted on the ! fifteenth of ccuk uu uar vaiue ui mvcil a his leae January last, and by the terms of the lease the Wilmington & Weldon reverts to its stockholders on Monday next,, the 15th inst. -. . , . - .;, , N , . Matters of very great importance are here involved, and large interests of some of our citizens, in Wilmington especially, are uereuy put in jeoparay. i nat mere nas been scheming and management to "freeze out" the local and small stockholders in " both, the Wilmington & Weldon, -and Co lumbia cs Augusta Koads there can scarcely - be a doubt. That combinations are cul- minating to own and control all the rail road property in North Carolina bv keen manipulators outside of the State has been patent for some time. That the enterprising and public spirited business men of Wil-1 mington have been duped and driven to the wall, is too certain for further suppression ' mi - i -vn;' .. xae jxews is misintormed, we think, with regard to the status of the two railroads mentioned. The en tire stock of the Wilmington, Colum bia and Augusta railroad has been and is owned North and the parlies investing have not only lost all their stock, but two-thirds of the bonded debt, also owned by them, has been sank. This road leased the VVil- mington and Weldon road, and, as the result of the insolvency of the W., C.j & A. road, the lease of the W. & W. road is now cancelled, and that road will revert to the control of its own officers within! a few davs: and the prevailing opinion among its stockholders is that their stock will now yield them quite as large a divi- j ueuu as ic aia unaer tne lease, as it f is now entirely free from any floating I aeot, ana is m probably better con- edition j than1 any railway in North (Jarolina. , . .. - . . The strictures of the News seem to v ii us out of place, as we feel quite 'sure that those who have held the bulk of the stock in the two roads, and who have been connected more immedi- a.i.cajr wnu me management, are honorable gentlemen; and while they no doubt, both for themselves and their friends, invested their money expecting ; profitable returns, they have nevertheless largely benefitted our section by the investment of their capital, and as the resalt has shown, with a very heavy pecuniary loss to themselves, and would probably rather be rid of their present burden thaa make new combinations to con trol other railroad property. flXEN WHO DO MOT VOTE. In 1872, according to our recollec- tion, there were oyer fifty thousand men who did not vote who had regis tered. How many of those were Re publicans? It will be remembered that the vote between Merrimon and Caldwell was very close that the latteri was elected by less than two thousand majority, although it is sup-! posea on good authority that at least hve thousand illegal votes were given by the Republicans that year. So1 thought the N. Y. Tribune, fifter ex amining the matter thoroughly, keep ing one of its staff in this State for! everal months for that purpose. Wei do not suppose that ten thousand Ri .1 : - - -"', Fuuo ineuio vote in I872J I ben there must have been over forty ocrats who did fail to Vote. lt w:ij come'oat thai it nl1 irk-,;ui ! a 4. 1 , ..WII,wv""?- WW. impossible not do to aav , that than I .1 ! r--' , ; ; I ..-j - t -T j Wcrc 1 w uv Ween tne case the opposition could easily .weep - 1 j vw . wuc uny ringing out the fifty, recalcitrants. Amon, one inousana them there were; thousands of iigeu,, ue, aonest, soDer,v,rlaoui ch wwa reared torecenUy. in theae colnmns. There were many V "7uuv uuuut .ng tfeerfifty-one thousand who faUed .-I. 1 w i ' . vote, who would be , correctly i ... k .. 1 tZZZn, deaire i. to 'see see Ibis; very class at the : polUV tne polls. We to see them taU to see tnem tak. J We ijyish most sincerely I government of our common country. We want to see them volincr for rrond and irniH ing more interest in .the men. We know meu ho ;will not j Sdhenckfand Chief Justice Smith, go to political conventia;nawhwiil j Tjie S&r .; bar never referred eijito yote, however, for delegate if a f)b!l-! rially once td'Jdge Sclienck, arid its ing booth is opened, It is to get only reference to Judge Smith was a them oat. that we ; have, mainly in- j column-long editorial! defending hist sisted. upon adopting a Aaw. anduaracUxLia ter pran of nominating candidates.; assauil8. Ththe Democrat ' did , Now it is extremely badpolicy to nol 6ee ' thbse 'attacks is something UBUYUUV" .". "iuigeni gen- tiemen when they do not act as you desire them to act. Abuse -makes no friends. Bitter expletives will 5 not induce men of character to wheel into line. . Persuasion, .reason, argu ment are worth a thousand fold more than such impolitic means. It would be a bad thin? for our 'State it j . ! would be a disastrous event for the Democratic parly, if all the men in North Carolina ' who are not in the habit of voting were to sustain the Radical ticket.;? Such I a procedure would reverse the order of things in North Carolina, and retnrn theF good old State to the hands of . those who came near mining it forever. . The great desideratum is to to get the men who do not vote to take some part in securing the nomination of good men for office, land in Voting for them on the day of election. We thought, therefore, thnt a new plan was worth trying. , : ,j In 1872 the total vole was 195,301. In 1876 the vote for President aggre gated 233,996. This v as a great im provement on the vote of 1872. All know what caused this improvement. To Gov. Vance the party .is chiefly indebted for the extraordinary enthu- siasm that characterized that cam- paign, and -that called out much the I ia--sof , ,u. 1 TT. larSe8t vote that was ever given. His personal popularity, his rare gifts as a campaigner, , bis personal magne tism, his prestige, his zeal, his capa city for work these 11 combined to enable him to arouse the people as they were never aroused before. It is true Tilden and others received a larger vote than Gov. Vance, but this He was the is easily explained. main object of attack; all the ar tillery of the enemy was point a war ed at him. He had been Governor, and there j were two or three thousand ' men . who ! would never forgive him for his great zeal and ability in time of war, although they would , support the remainder of the Democratic ticket. Hence, he enabled others to get a larger vote than the great leader did. Their very obscurity shielded them from the at- tacsis ana antagonisms tbat were ar- rayed against Governor Vance. But it is almost certain that there were at least fifteen1 thousand men who did not vote even in that stirring year. We think that the registered vote in 1872 was over two hundred and forty-six thousand. If so, then there were more voters in 1876, as the population had increased many thou sands daring the intervening four years. . There must fcave been somer where near two hundred and fifty thousand registered voters-or men who could have registered. ' . If any system can be adopted to indace nearly every, voter to go to the polls, the Democratic majority mast range from twenty, to thirty thousand. Whilst Haves received . j. 0 - 10,296 more votes than Caldwell did in 1872, Tilden 1 received 28,239 more votes.than Merrimon did ini 872. '"M If the Democrats turn out at the next election they can easily elect their ticket by a very large majority. The main thing to be done is to. cet them to exercise their franchise . -.To do this let there be fairness in select ing candidates, and let only men of the highest character ,and of real capacity be chosen. The reported; interview with Sen ator Conkling will be read with in-f terest. The New York Senator has! a certain influence with his -party. and is now : spoken of as 'the Yice President on the Grant ticket ia 1 88oi Whilst what he says may not be al- tncAthav nnttr ' u ALai 4ii!l f I "B""" "vn, IU VVUUHUB W 11.11. T 11 0 1 JUemocratS have aaid ftn L from the beffinnW H , wuwai tuem mjjcu lOneer. tie 1 says mere was! a bargain and that Matthews mJe t Vn.4 to it, v He thinks when the revelation is made that th U, "OTS appalled at the dishonor br the Idi ministration. (He say. the ' Wst had determined f t4 .IsUtbat aenera Bteedman, onj of Grants ablest divil ion. commanders had : 70,000 1 men Ia -'i7i & ipgiwejjus tor tne pnrDose l .eaan(r Tilden. a'nd 1 iiJKK!! m 1 mmm " wvmh a 1 ffreat ln?Atiti. CTtl . c 1 , . rrrl l - T 'WHfflf. m hav changed the whole1 tbloe. , - 1 J I - - T -f" W Llla I Our friend of the Charlotte Demo- i , crat is mistaken when he says the $Axliod H;nnni inni.- rT strange, i Judge Smith saw them, as we did, and he felt their unkindntaaj We do not chooa t w ." . . . ' , cause we nave no idea of lhpintr drawn into a contest that can onlv " ": i t " it-).'!.; i, ...... mtest that can only work harm to a cause we all profess to . espouse heartily. . In common with i thousands. who ; have the good of the Democratic party at heart; we have sincerely deprecated and regretted the unseemly ' discussion concerning the. Chief Jusiiceship, and the attempts to depreciate: and: ren der- despicable the excellent, learned and able gentleman who now fills that high office The opinion expressed in a letter by Col. Saunders, of the xvMteigu wustryer, is in narmony wiin r-r : "" '"Vl" . our own view. tie writes: ;" "I notice that within the last few weeks the campaign for nomination for places on the next Supreme Court Bench has opened pretty generally all along the line, and I regret very much to see the great bitterness, with which it seems to be prosecuted. One may be a full believer in the right of the people to discuss the characters and quali fications of the candidates for nominations, especially when nominations are equivalent to elections; indeed, the right to discuss is necessary to we intelligent exercise of the light to nominate, but surely in a State re nowned as is our own for pure and able lawyers, the candidates for the highest ju dicial honors ought not to be subjected to sucn an orueai. it nas an ugly look." : LEGAL ADVERTISING. We are glad to see that the Hills boro Recorder is directing its atten tion to the subject of "legal adver tising." It is a reproach to North Carolina thaiTthereis t not a law compelling the publication of legal notices of a certain kind and the sale of property, in the newspapers in the respective counties. It has happened a thousand times, that property has - 'm 1 : Deen sacrinced because the people generally knew nothing of the sales. Written notices, stuck up at the two or three places in a county, are seen by a very few of the people, and not half the time do - they remain posted beyond a few days. It is an iniqui ty, an injustice, and, indeed, as the Recorder suggests, a swiudle," because so much property is needlessly sacrificed under it. It should be changed, and all publica tions required by law should be made, when possible, in some newspaper published in the coffnty. We join the liecorder in the hope that the btate press will agitate this question. If the public properly appreciated I the utility of legal advertising they would demand the enacting of such a law. ; We avail ourselves of the excellent discussion of the Recorder for the iwivwiug juuicious ana timely re marks: ; . uecause tne press has asked it, it has been assumed that the press was altogether seinsn jn its aemand. The demagogue is never wantine in Dretextsto ratrh thA nnn nlar ear, and it has been an easy matter to i.icbcu mm piopoBinon as anomer mode of inaireci neavy taxation; another device bv nuibuuuo lutcicsi, laiiens at me expense of another. . u ;; "The press has sever denied that it will oe Denenueu oy the enactment of such laws. It would be an anomaly in human action if any public service was done with wholly iuuuu fuipuso. jld me sirnggie ror ex istence.no man and no profession can afford to give its time.its labor and its talents to the public for nothing; least of all, the press, restricted by an unappreciative pop- uiat wuBiucruHon io ine very - narrowest foothold ot remuneration; yet with more generous regard ior the general welfare man any other profession, moving forward SfeS men; its own members, meanwhile, thrust tum ui great, measures, me creators of great I stuu w uea loose measures are accom plished, when great political battles are won, when those great men are seated in their places; themselves unnoticed, unre warded, almost despised. The press has a power in its hands that neither it or the pol itician seems to realize Some day it may wake up to a consciousness of it and use iL" .. -,. r j : :- . J "The small tax charged upon the proper, ty for advertising it so that the rfnri mih. lie may have knowledge of it, would bring that competition into action which is the 1 1 fa nil S.MAtMAj.M -3 1 . ' jijku w an uuoiuciw, sou realize sucn prices as wOnld make the advertisincr charo-ea n insignificant per centage. upon the amount swin'dle; Peoph reanzea. , xne. present system is almost a only justifiable in a country where e are nnable to read, and where j. "i ,f Other. State ha nrnr ii,.-i ll - S more progressive in tis matter f atence, and finds her advantage in iL Arkansas followed Georgia, aodlatelyAla- k 1 i..ifr : "nmtt uao iua-imiat. enactments. n mere is some encouragement in h y ' V ,7' " "i 1 J 7 T1 I Parliament wi l separate to . take! the the" statement that the i 1 members of1 Sil!? J C?n that, the outlook, is not gloomier than I it'was several weeks ago.a Favorable I etions are made from ihe ;,nega- I tiye statemeata of Sir-Stafford North cote that nothing has bpcprretnns far to render peace improbable. (r ' ' ..--- t ann irill nnl onnninf Inildnnn IklL. I T p.-Yyvvi.-'WT.v'vrj':ry W Prleaw Pojhsctorship. He!prr Ti-' iii 5 " V Irs VOICK WAN NOT ALWArn FOR WAlt. , The, Northern i Democrats - about 1860-J'Ol, by brave talk .induced;; the. .South to believe that if Iheygotjnto kfigbtlwir'the ?padicall party, th said Northern Democrats would be found by. their aide, ready : to spill their blood like water and die -with Th eTr ErTthea inthe the. war came, and jwhat followed ? The Democrats, - with the exception of a A'ery fewr Franklin Pierce among uwn were as ; run oi( uguv . 8S( I RftllinsU WPra ' onrl nn thn Acramst ' . , ,---,,- ' -'.r. i-'-'t i a. Is jitja, matter, of surprise that Southern Pemocrats shoqld not : be willing , Iq gqitof war, again when Tilden was about to,bo, cheated out of his office and the country . out of ita legally, elected President ? Is it not true that a burnt child . dreads fire? ,-. Could. jLhey trust the tNorthern. Demooratioi.fire-eaters again ? Jo fact j were there enough of that. sort any wa7 t W first-class confla- 8rauon The New York Sun. that ' calls Hayes "His Fraudulency," and de mands lay-after- day that he be ex pelled from the Presidency, did not always talk in "that style. I. It : was opposed to the Electoral Commission, and it was opposed lo all resistance qy force. We find in the Washing- .u " - : ""o P?t. Bago irom an euiionai ot . toe JNew York Sun's, of the.date of November 22, 1876. We give apart: ') "If Hayes shall be declared President j with grave reasons to believe that be has not been honestly and fairly entitled to have the electoral votes of certain Stales, he and his party inust bear the conse quences. Those consequences, if his oppo nents are wise, will be, not tbat his title to the office is to be resisted, but that the peo ple, are to be appealed to to use their constitutional and peaceful method of re dressing all wrongs and punishing all out ragesnamely, by ., the , ballot- box. .No such appeal can be made if the country is to be plunged into anarchy by denying Hayes', title to the office. . Our Govern ment must be preserved and perpetuated; and tbat it may be, grievous as the wrons will be tbat takes from Tilden States in which he has' certainly carried a maloritv of the popular vote, we must submit to tbat wrong in the entire certainty that the party respo8ible for it will ii due time be re warded with political annihilation. We shall therefore deprecate and oppose any action by the House of KeDreseni&tires looking to any dispute of the regular elec toral certincates irom tiny of the states." It may reconcile as best it cansnch lameness with its more recent belli cose flourishes, but it had its effect, J and it is now too late "to resist" Mr. Hayes's "title to the office." The De mocrats acted with a broad patriotism when they submitted to the great wrong. They will still maintain their character i as patriots bv refusint? steadfastly to join such extremists as Montgomery Blair and the New York Sun in disturbing the cou u try by en- deavoring to expel the de facto Pre- sident from the chair of the Chief Executive. The Sun helped all it could to persuade the Sonthern De mocrats to submit, and it wastes its ink and paper now in endeavoring to, indace them to put on the war paint and go for Mr. Hayes's scalp. If Mr. Hayes is ever turned out of office it must be the work of those who put him in by fraud. The Democrats will not raise a hand now to undo what they submitted to more than a year ago. lhey will rectify matters in 1880. The Washington JWhas absorbed the National Union by purchase, thus making its circulation nearly 13,000 daily. In less than five months this new Democratic morning paper has accomplished something wonder-- f ul in the historv of. Washt joarnfcit has achieved 8ooe.S maue iisen a power, ana. proved tnat it was possible to publish a real news paper at the ' great political ! head-! centre. It isa very, saucv and racv paper. It carries . a free lance and tilts at those of its own party who stand in its way, whilst riding rough shod over.the men of the opposition. It does not put up a heavy job in the way ot "deportment" or aim to be a 'dgni6pd', paper. It is far too liyely uu wibtv ana aasninor ior mat. Amonc field rmns it is a sort of flv-' W artillerv." anW n' r'rinJ 'nA canister 1 freely. It shoots at short range generally, and gets close up to j '--f- ' ' -' - "; ; - -. '. ' LW enemy, Long may it shoot. , ; v If war shonld occnr and no man in' not, tuen breadstults must gradually advanoe in price. . There is no sort of doubt that there would be: consider able demand for the cereals in Eng land, whether ; there is war or1 not.- is the opinion "of Mr, Louis J, Jennings, tne able London correspond dent of . the iNewXork World. kHe says: ''?.! I'lt is not possible lhat all: the reouuri I v? ments of a lariremilitarv and naval -form can be supplied from ur-own - resources aone.- i seems as u you, who lost your nuo ojr a war, wui oy anomer war regain it. ; - Should nostilities 1 break but between f?"BuBatfS8ia, tne jJingusn carrying fef jMt? the extent that you were prepared to re- J . dKni seia, the English carrying Tdrpbone between and Ralefsn aatk- tug-. iBBlne dee. y- A connectioDf between Wilmiogtonand Ruleigh by telephone was established Lon Suuday lost j This day was selected, as the best fort lie purpose of carrying on acoii--versution, because the, other wires on he same pule3 '.between Wilmington aud aleigh Svpuld probably be idle, j Where there are lothetuwiresL. onbejBme.set of ? poles , withj, -the telephone , ..wires j, for, any considerable distance, Jbe ticking of the telegraph instrumepts can be distinctly heard-iu the telephone: ati'l,' Mllhough" most of the wires were' silent on'Sunday5,' thoe operating the telephone eouhl hear aoy of1 flee that started a message while they were talking. This, of course,, interfered;: with them somewhat; still they were able to con verse with Raleigb;'distant about one bun dred and twepty-flve mifesvery distinctly.' The' singing was particularly melodious and very sweet, the voice of each singer being easily recognized.. An old schoolmate called to Mr. Angel, and although be bad cot seen him for eighteen years his voice sounded perfectly natural . and 1 as recogn iz Ju( once, the same being the case with Col . !niel. Starke, and Messrs. ? Bnsbee and Ilill, the; Western Union attaches. .'. ;'V V Governor Vance favored our' Wilmington friends with bis i presence and; asked ; after their health They invited him' to come do w n, and told him they) could give him some nice strawberries, &c. 7,. Without say ing so in so many, words, His Excellency inumated ibat sometbiug stronger would suit biro better.' It happened tbat the gen tleman who was doing the talking at; this end of the, line had never beard What the I said to our not undertaud the drift of his remark, Calls were made from Raleigh for Hon. George Davis, Col. Mcllhenny,: Mr. Geo. Harriss, Judge Meares, Capt. Myers, Mr. Kerchner and others. M Wilmington was asked to express her choice for Chief justice,: and responded by staling that Smith would be satisfactory for the higbesi office and Ashe for Associate. The siBging through this remarkable in strument was immensely enjoyed appar ently, at both ends of the line. The Wil mington singers were Messrs! George P. Welsh (bass). K P. Riddick (soprano), Tilley second tenor), O. G. Parsley, Jr., Jr. (baratone), and A. P. .Beckham (loprano), and the pieces sung were "Essie Dear," "Litlle Footsteps,","The Gates Ajar." "The Little Brown Church," "Nearer My God to Thee," "Blue Glass Cure," "Almost Per suaded," j "Silver Threads Among the Gold," "Hold the Fort," and "Sweet By and By." The Raleigh Amateur Glee Club consisted of Messrs. L. S. Overman, E. A. Jones, M. T. Leach, I, J. Young, Dr Knox, Sherwood Haywood and V. Royster, and the pieces; rendered were "Nearer My God to Thee," "Silver Threads," &c, (sung to the tune of Jesus Lover of My Soul), "Gates Ajar," "Take this Letter to My Mother." "The Sweet By and By," "We Rowi" &c , and "My Mother-in Law." The instrument was attached by Mr. L. A. Angel,! the Agent here, under whose superintendence it was operated in the w umington office, and quite a number were piesent wile it was in operation, deeply interested spectators and listeners. The Telephone is certainly a wonderful in strument. I i The Telephone at Kocky Point, Mr. W. H. Newell, writing us from Rocky Point, Pender county, says: "Some of the Rocky Point boys have been experiment ing with i the telephone. It has proven quite a success. Their implements are Of the rudest kind, so far, consisting of empty oyster and peach cans, sheets of writing pa per, or pieces of snuff bladder, for vibra tors, connected by flax strings. Their songs' and nnnn..T.( w... 1 - l - . . I auu vuuiHuuu ue uisnncijy ueara beyond the reach ot the voice through the I in - . '- . i r air. t c uupe ere long to nave a telephone constructed upon the most approved plan." . f I. . J Re-Opeujng an Important Salt. On the strength of the decision of the Supreme Court, in the case of Godfrey vs. Harvey Terry, says the Charlotte j Observer, a petition has been filed and granted for a re-opening of the decree heretofore ren dered in the case of Harvey Terry vs. the stockholders in ihe Bank of Cape Pear, and Judge Dick has ordered that it be beard at a special term of the Circuit Court: to be held in Greensboro, beginning the third Monday in June. The case possesses considerable public interest. i ..'.-- " ! Heavy Receipts. ;:H;?. j The receipts of crude turpentine at this port since Saturday foot up, as far as taken to account, 13,498 barrels, being the largest posted on any one day since the war, and some say since ViImington haB been a port. The receipts of. the week amounted to 23,-' 191 barrels. The receipts of. tar yesterday were also quite large, footing up 1,610 bar-! rels, and the receipts of Jhevweek amount ing to 598 barrels. ; jf Tbe New cotton Preaa. . a The new cotton press, which has just been "e?ted oa l"e wharf of the Wilming ton Colt0n Compress Company and Ware- house Company, waa in operation yesterday forenoon and again in the . afternoon, for the first time, and was found to work.verv satisfactory, though only two-thirds of the pressure ?Was on. The press wants a little limbericg up,! &c, when it will be, fully reaqy for business. Coifgreaslonaj. . " In addition to the Hon. A.' M, Waddell, who Me llearn will lie a candidate for re nomination, the name of Major Chas, M. Stedman, of this city will be presented to the next Democratic convention ef ihe xmra yongrssiooatiJistrict. I nL7Z?XSy Tf it- 1 "nsea sorrow.", HS we; suggest iuai, ue give it tne iorna ana size of a Jet- r 1 sey mosquitp. TFbree8terPret. : The Good Templars: received $21.6 from the festival at LumberUjn. 7 j romreeskept , insure confidence; and JJr. Killra rtfthv Bvrah riAwpr nVAmicrf i ief ia the diseases of childhood without at Onra AfTotfn it .., TTai.. au . n -".mjs Hew wip popular re- "S-r ,uu ! f "v y cents a ootlle. Connection - by 'V IVllmlnslon A Card Swindler Comet to Grief. A colored indfvfO'uk! wE8 gave bis name as John Davis, and who says, that be came here from Charlotte, was arrested on North Water street near ltd foot f Mulberry, yesterday s ternoon, jb Officer Nelson, on the' charge-iufrgansblfrfg or swindling' a white man from Sampson county, by the name of Nathuu Dudley, out of $10 liy means of cards Upon beigiearched,aTler being taken-ttfttreaT1rtJTiPra'fifty-(3o!-lar Conffc'deraife ofll lnf ah old lr1h Caro lina treasary' nolo were foil nd orf hisler soQ,aDd alsc a p uaiber of.cai.Us m iiieh- Eo trjed to3aroxjif9t WTWi feAh . ockr-upj hut was pr'cyecte'd fjpni so doing by the of fleer, opop te backs of which were certaiu marks and iumDe?ry'!Tbe": money? which he took froni lgtfley'was banded ib 'i confedefttie, wheJlrau disappeared. He no doubt, a renlar hrnr - rniii liu von iie,y4?e544.njabyopttr.cr!;;'(Iulous f ilRed yja i nesaay afternoon, at a store in ihe same neighTjorbbod. a-ftoi(fii?Mf!Wiin.t? I., il : - i . " ' ""if while standing In a crowd, fuddehly jerked aemait roil jtffiFillaij amoilnling to seven dollArs, frmjt pUketMr Sydney Joh nson , o( Sampson cou n ty, and made off with it Another colored man in tl crowd; as ifrf ! Johnson' Was i about id pur sue tbe thief,4uggested that he should hold on a moment and he wonld gel a police man, when he hastened into the street and neither of the parties, who were doubtless confederates, have since been seen by those present, ill is believed by persons conver- sant with therfacts that the'so ealled'Jbbn" Davis and the 'party; who snatched Uhe money - from, Mr. Johnson are one and j the ejime person, put as Mr.; J. has .left ihe city there is no one known at present who can identify him. ' T . ' - r :! J;i!lf ; For the Star. HO TO SELECT CANDIDATES,' &c The question concerning the mode of selecting candidates is not without , difficulties, i ! The nnmarv Umr,n seems- less objectionable than others as the voters indicate their choice dU rectly, and thus avoid . the mostglarj ing. chance; for tricksters and in triguers. A. ii; It is hoped the mode chosen will . 4u kuo seieciion or men qualified for the grave task. The South has suffered thirteen years of misrule, such as it is hoped may never be repeated, and since the yoke ICS . .1 1 A . is removed let us rise eanal tr i.h . casion, and, if it is bossiblp splpnt ameliorate the eondiioD ol o op. pressed and impoverished people, J&JSnift amp8 (or va-' -f "u aic iu ue uauuiea, and their mention indicates that tal-; ent and experience will be reauired to consider thm nrnncrlo m;tY,; i. Bixdavrio wS ?G 7 lthinhe sixiy aays to which the session is hm- lted. Let our people take the direc- tion of Gov1. Hendricks to the Indi- anians, "Select vour best men and none others 7 ' oL For the Star. BLIDKN CONVENTION, on Friday 12th instant, the Democrats of Bladen met in the courthouse for the purpose of appointing delegates to the ap proaching State, Congressional and Judicial Conventions.; The meeting had been called oy the County Executive Com court week had been selected to insure a good attendance.: . p ; j ;: . ; , C. C. Lyon, Esq , as Chairman of the vouuiy executive Committee, called the meeting to order, explained its object, and asked Thos. J. Norman, Esq,, to fill the chair temporarily: and Ay M MTiTo!ii Esq., to act as Secretary pro tern. - On motion a committee of three on per manent organization was appointed, and it recommended C. C, Lyon, Esq., forperma- nent nhnirman anI: tVT A- t - - , UUv. , uicuuiau, jr., iSq , for permanent Secretary. Th ing ratified the recommendations. On motion the Chairman nnnninioi nr. delegate from each township in the countv dicial Conventions a different delegate ,. . , " wtavc, vongressionai and Ju The following are the delegates ap pointed by the Chairman, and afterward unanimously ratified by the meeting, its Chairman insisting that the meeting should ictigw uia appointments: M wf olie invention: Messrs.: J Q 4UC x.oye, jr., jo, jn. Tatom, C. P. Parker. O. J. Gardner. Tt P a hw t M. Devane. J W. ft mtt'i n '. t W -,, t . V i. M b.. ooi3Ewi?'i- K K"J- W Purdte iJTS? Convention: J.. vin Wn'd Tatom, Jno. S.: Mel- 2 MJlJ ?"t?? JJ?a F Croom' An" gus McFadyen J. Ai Cromartie; WiN.l SmjPer1,'Jnof to0' L H,SnUlh, Dun-' can McLean, Jnp. A. McDowell; and by 'Srt?e2L?u"? P 3. aL'yonanJ To the Uudicia T Coni ;saV uicuiusu. ir. ...- I rrm . . u . 41la. . Lvon - -T-: , . T DU ojjruB. -. - ' ::!;; T tit . . . I JV5iQ Lyon. ;the.X)bairman,! 7h?'7" btedmai1. Jr ' Ihei Secretary, f: the meetimrjrwere adriMi i k k..J.i..! r ' '. r - r Hf lpoatsa l .1 : me - oueii tor me use 01 one or V -i- - ; fhe artillery guns jn the Stale arsenal, to aid Wither? SE? .iy dele8le .filing to attend the proper celebraUon of the 20th of May. t o-lf fe three conventions to which be Federal Court met at Slatesville on hh mIw1?rCan'1 in writingi giTei Monday; Judge Dkk presfding.- ItVas O?1 m?J em' ;; " J rumored 00 the streeU yeslefday lhat the iiwoSS1"1'' prance people wojild run a candidate atSO -theproachingmunicipalelection.. V iT?r-irL?,0d'S- Mercerva-Smiihli 0 Torchlight." While Ro n'r w n lark,D. .G; Robeson, ! hmson'a show was being ferried over the w" iW't ImcwMj Vt B. Sutton, rRH Roanoke river on the 5th inst, the largest n mnliH. I. . , . ' -i - m. uiuicoaamijannni,..-! I ' ,"","vu" meeimir aaionrnRrt:-: 1 m. a oj C P"Lt Chairman, Nl A. Stedmajj, Jr.; Beery.asi-,i , 7 ; nbnpleant Predleamenl. ' A German named Cherry,Valley. has nlaced Junf O . .. "... - r mui pf;uipament.,Hia l I tDlTa Vina nn Ul. . : ...' i ' : ! """""a Teeu an valid, and a few days ago,u thinking; ihat she was aying, sne insisted' that her husband shbuld mply,.ir.ith Jierlofferepeated request to; make her sister hiaapnnn wifi No .BS?i&?!5S S?Sdf i7 1 v ,"' ?.OQUZ! T "ave tne marriage occur before she closed hef eyes Unf!eathr''The! ceremouy was accordingly performed J a riejghboting jusUce of the peace of 4 fioiating; Mod strange to say, Mrs 1 Sultz SbJx has rallied and is rapidrP growing stronger! and prdbablV'will get: welL h Mr. Suitz isvarixious to now hqw he can read his title clear j Spirits Turpentine ' Miss Lizzie Dunn; a irl of ihi; teen, living' at HilJsboro, was dr-aiir .it r burue,! ,,,, Ust,Srday. She aUemp lo hglii fare with a can of kerosene. . Aphevittv; Citizen: Judge Clnmi will b fin Yancey ville next week, and 2 hungry .f.,r b ml Bar-buffters of Yn cey villei pie.-ise. tke uolice. , Youl Kerly.w:isarraigtied Monday under ig dictmeiitfor kilHnsror c'Ausin,r tu .LIQ: yoiing Moffltt. same rifieen raTnthsae T is not believed that l.e can possibly be'on victed, or that he is kultij?- cmrt house bell is under a passing cloud -1?rt:Judge bt lL oyer 10 Tuiki-y Cfc Mntaiu , To Ashe l.e can hear a durued sight furder than Im can lae .new-fauSled ont just up in the court hou e.": J uea 7" Staie,!vll,e American: Col. J08 Vyilcox. of Philatklphia,n eminent geolo 0..t i aruieu ana prospected c tenbively examiniog mineral deposits in a number of Slates, including Western North Caroling: called ui.on ns last , week, and rrom Whom we learned that this State has . larger number of varieties of the mineral kingdom than any State in the Union. Co! Wilcox, selected a number of fpecimena from the large collection of Mr? Adlii Stepheusf.n, of this place, which he will forward lo Iho-Paris Exposition. By the -j, uicpuuusou possesses the bestcoi lection in that line, so we learn, in the State and very attractive to behold.' Reidsville correspondent of tl Norfolk Virginian writes April 12th We were .visited yesterday evening by a vtrv great hail storm, together with a whirlim Ihe hair was as large as a small eg Tt broke the window glass out of all thTwin dows it came in contact with. The wind passed over the farm of W. U. Henderson and blew down his cotton- gin, aud the ton of bis barn was taken off and carried at least fifty yards. His entire fence was laid on the ground. Four men and one horse were caught under the gin, where thev went to seek shelter. - Three of the men came out with much difficulty, but some what ..braised.. The other man and the horse hnd to be prised out, but were not seriously hurt. Mr. Henderson's loss was not less than $1,000." ;IIenrv Roberts, unlm-pd h k.. convicted of murder in Cleaveland cour' upon circumstantial evidence, lie is to he hanged on the24lhof May, unless pardoned by the Governor, upon the application of the judge, jury; solicitor and "hundreds ef respectable and sympathizing citizens" ihe Charlotte Observer states that in Febru ary the body of fius Ware, negro, was found on the track of the A. & C. Air Line Itailroad, in Cleaveland county. One or more trains had passed over the body be fore it was discovered, and the theory was advanced that he had laid down on the track, while returning drunk from a dance in the Jpeighborhood. and in this manner met his death; but suspicion was directed to a negro rained Henry Roberts, who was known to have uttered threats against the deceased, and he was arrested and lodged in 3 ail at Shelby. , 6 . frewbern Aut SheU- Owing to Newbern Nut Shell-. cV-hU c.l 1 S?SSg' paired through serious threat affection K&ToSCcES - ' ihhk. , ieiegrapn poles between Fort Macon and Wilmington, N. C, had an at- tack of telirIum '"mens, and in the tem- Prary absenceof hiscOmpanion wandered from his tent on the Bogue Banks. Search was made for him during the night, but without success, and on Friday morning nis body was found, his face and body both b,e,ng"tfrnb,y. hruised, some distance from thetenL , It is supposed be fell over a i uu.. ji luc uauas imii I iih hho and in attempting to clamber up inflicted the wounds on his person,- which must have been very painful until death re lieved Lim of his sufferings. Robesonian: The Presbytery of Eayelteville will convene at Ionia Church in this county, next Thursday week, 25th inst. From every quarter we hear of the ravages of the hail svorm. Some of the stones were found by actval measurement uiuu metres in i circumference. The public exhibition at the, close" of the colored school, which took pHce" in this town on last Friday night, was Considered a success by all, who attended it. The speeches, dialogues, and singing were very good, and : especially the sinking, -r Lumber ton, the county seat of Robe son county, is a town of about 1000 inhabi tants, situated on the Lumber river, con nected east and west by the Carolina Cen- x tral Railroad and wilhin sixty-eight miles of Wilmington, the principal seaport town in the State. ; It has four churches, four school houses, twenty five stores, one buggy and wagon establishment, one saddle and harness manufactory, two steam saw mills, one beer pi ch manufactory, and wool fac tory. The town is growing very rapidly. The mail on the Cape Fear river need9 reconstructing in some way. There is not a postoffice on the river of which there ia not more or less complaint., - - Charlotte Observer; Saturday night, at a gathering of country people at the house of Mrs. Heffner, about six miles from l;hrrvilla in T : i : . ?AnT " "i"" Vt"uwlu coumy, a au- j "v-.uiicu ueiween several men. in wWch James Anthony, a young man who J'sinthe neighborhood, wal shot down "d killed instanUy. Intelligence of the nnfo"?nate occurrence was received here yesterday afternoon, butverv few of the particulars are known! ---Im? J M Ken- drick wUl bathe next chief of tte firede- partmenw He win receve be unanimJu3 U.r .T ' vownf tl Inn. v.- o. . . D . .rviu Ul nir. JUDeiU ruLflKln. nhn. l: . 7 -I - nwe awp .ouroea to death, the fire Iihtiikt hMn ri;0.m- . ..!. . rescue them.: It ,8 understood that an -application will be made, to the Governor nr aJri., n i uo w:ranui uctaoie lunouaiv mni a nil tnra nn a earaen ience. sitorina roiia : j: 5e?tlo-t A litl,e negro- boy attempted to NfiTe him Into the fery boat, whereupon . ; . iu every u the flepban t caught Lim in Lis 1 1 m nt Im,t squeezed him nearly to death . He breathed a feW 80COUU8 and then erhir ! W Suitzliin-ZrJt1 ne,t monb there, sar KL " . ; .uTrci T llfQIKr IB IUC Z V '"ir ' -ne nouse occupieu by Mr. Amos ean and family at Mr. J. C. Cooper's North Pork lnlnt.ti.. x - Ane nouae occupied DV Mr. A mm Tlaan a m J r ?i -i n lliTln-f .f ridaylevening last, the w TheT.fire occurred about 3 ocJockP. M., taking iiu surt from an op Stairs room , ; It ws accidental: no in surance: Mr.1 Dean lost about half of his properly. --It is with oleasnm tht we announce to the people of Granville that iue taxes levied this year will be considera oiy.Jess than jthose of several years past ve pw Uw4 Tears 23lper cent, on the f 100 has-been leyiedrto pay: the old debt. This wa nonevieoTlbis year: The amount collected -in toe two years for this purpose was about $16,000. 1 New, so far as we can learrj not one, dollar of this old debt has yet been yaid. Why hasn't it? The money has been collected. ,".